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13. Bruce Herbert Mahan
13. Bruce Herbert Mahan
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He ciecicled to carry out his doctoral studies with George Kistiakowsky in physical chemistry. Kistiakowsky had trained with Boclenstein in Berlin, and it was in that tradition that Mahan set out to 349
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practical experience with an explosion once when liquid oxygen found organic material in the drain trap. In 1959, three years after arriving at Berkeley, now an assistant professor, he volunteered to teach a new freshman chemistry course described in the catalog as "lecture and laboratory for students of superior facility and preparation." It ended a Tong Berkeley tradition of having only one freshman course for all entering students, and it established one of the first beginning chemistry courses that used calculus and the quantitative application of thermodynamics.
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He concentrated on molecular collisional processes, especially collisional energy transfers and ionmolecule reactions. He was the first to recognize that the efficient energy transfer from excited polyatomic molecules
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His penetrating observation treated the impulsive transTational-vibrational energy transfer process correctly for the first time. State-selective kinetic studies are common now using molecular beams ant!
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Mahan's scientific rigor and his serious personality kept many of his students at a distance. Perhaps this was partly clue to his belief that graduate students shouIct take the initiative in pursuing their Ph.D.
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in 1975 Bruce Mahan learned that he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a dreadful disease that slowly but inexorably causes paralysis starting from the periphery of the body and progressing to the center. He went from crutches to a wheelchair to bed and a respirator in about four years.
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B R U C E H E R B E RT M A H A N 355 before he became ill. At first he kept his disease a secret from his mother, but she was called when he contracted pneumonia and his doctor thought he wouIcl not last long.
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Stanford Research Institute Symposium on Chemical Reaction in the Lower and Upper Atmosphere. Pergamon Press.
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Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
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University Chemistry, 2nd ed. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
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Deconvolution of molecular beam inelastic scattering data.
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New York: Plenum Publishing Co. 1975 University Chemistry, 3rd ed.
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Lee. Photoionization studies of the diatomic heteronuclear rare gas molecules XeKr, XeAr and KrAr.
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O'Keefe. Laser induced fluorescence studies of the charge transfer reaction of N2+ with Ar and N2.
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